ICC Women's T20 World Cup: How Harmanpreet Kaur and co. reached the semifinal?

The Indian Women's cricket team have qualified for the semifinals in the ongoing Women's T20 World Cup.

It has been an almost smooth journey for Harmanpreet Kaur and her girls as the Indian team have qualified to the last four as the Group B runners-up.

India were slotted in the group with Pakistan, Ireland, England and West Indies. And this is how they have reached the T20 World Cup semi-finals.

Jumping Jemimah against Pakistan:

India's first encounter in the group stage was the high voltage meet against arch-rivals Pakistan. Pakistan scored 149/4 after batting, which was the highest score in a T20 match between the old foes. India played a thriller and won the match by 7 wickets, courtesy of Jemimah Rodrigues. Jemimah scored an unbeaten 53 off just 38 balls and steered India to a fantastic win to open the account at the expense of Pakistan.

Result: India won by 7 wickets

Player of the Match: Jemimah Rodrigues

Points: 2

Deepti Dominance against the West Indies:

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur has some amazing players under her squad. And another star Deepti Sharma emerged against the West Indies. The Windies managed only 118 runs after the full quota of overs. Deepti strangled them throughout, picking up 3 wickets for just 15 runs in her 4 overs.

In reply, India had an early stutter as Smriti Mandhana (10) and Jemimah (1) departed early, but captain Harmanpreet Kaur (33 off 42 balls) and young wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh (44 off 32 balls) steered India to a comfortable win. They finished the match with 11 balls to spare.

Result: India won by 6 wickets

Player of the Match: Deepti Sharma

Points: 4

A slip against England despite Reunka Brilliance:

India met England in the 3rd group stage game and started brilliantly. Renuka Singh rattled the English batting as they were tottering at 29/3 at one stage. Nat Sciver (50 off 42 balls) and Amy Jones (40 off 27 balls) brought the English out of the mud as they finished with 151/7. Renuka though had magical figures as she finished with 5/15, showing an outstanding display of pace bowling.

India had a stuttering start in the chase. Shafali Verma (8), Jemimah (13) and Harmanpreet (4) fell early as the pressure mounted on Smriti Mandhana. Despite Mandhana's fifty and a handy knock from Richa Ghosh, India fell 11 runs short against the England side and suffered their first defeat.

Result: India lost by 11 Runs

Player of the Match: Nat Sciver Brunt

Points: 4

Mandhana mauling Ireland:

In a must win match, India's premier batter Smriti Mandhana rose and played an outstanding knock of 87. She demonstrated a fantastic display of batting and with a late Jemimah flurry, India finished at 155/6.

Ireland were 54/2 at 8.2 overs when the rain come. It was relentless rain and the match was decided by the DLS method. Ireland were 5 runs behind the stipulated total at that moment and India won the game.

Result: India won by 5 runs (DLS method)

Player of the Match: Smriti Mandhana

Points: 6

India Semi-Final opponent:

India will be up against either Australia and South Africa in the semifinal. India will be playing their semifinal match on Thursday (February 23), and the match will be played in Cape Town.